Top 1200 Waste Of Effort Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
I'm not here to joke around or waste time. I want to put my city and country on the map, and I won't stop until I'm at the top.
The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be no one nation's problem.
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
I think if anybody has an opportunity to play professional basketball, to not transcend that into off-the-court endeavors is really a waste.
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.
I have become quite good at repurposing and reusing much of what comes into the house. The goal is to generate as little waste as possible.
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.
I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Only a few singles off an album really work, and the rest of the songs feel like such a waste.
When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.
I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.
A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.
There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."
If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
After we air the call, it's gone. I always thought, 'What a waste.' That's such a powerful story, and there's no way to revisit it or share it.
Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.
Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
Whey protein is taken very quickly into the bloodstream and there is a lot of waste, so it is not ideal on its own in most cases.
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.
Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?
All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.
I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
